Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has 1 Question For Marjorie Taylor Greene | EUROtoday

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday renewed her name for a ban on lawmakers buying and selling particular person shares after a disclosure submitting confirmed that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) purchased shares in various corporations simply earlier than President Donald Trump introduced a pause on tariffs.

“We saw Marjorie Taylor Greene buy that dip,” Ocasio-Cortez stated at a rally in Idaho with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “I got one question for her: How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering?”

She slammed lawmakers for utilizing their entry to “sensitive information” to make trades ― and stated Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have been a part of that scheme.

“I hope we see now that it was all about manipulating the markets so that he could quietly enrich his friends who bought the dip before reversing it all in the morning,” she stated.

The disclosure this week revealed that Greene purchased between about $21,000 and $315,000 in shares on April 8 and 9, the day earlier than and the day of Trump’s tariff pause announcement, the New York Times famous.

That announcement induced the market to soar.

Ocasio-Cortez stated Democrats and Republicans alike needs to be united in opposing the apply in all circumstances.

“Members of Congress holding and trading individual stock is wrong,” she stated. “It is corrosive. It is destructive. And it needs to be banned.”

Ocasio-Cortez additionally put Trump on blast.

“Donald Trump is a criminal who was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, liable for sexual abuse,” she stated. “Of course he’s lying and abusing and manipulating the stock market, too. When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror.”

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